054 How to implement Adobe's API Manager (with Swagger, ColdFusion, and API's) with Brian Sappey

Brian Sappey talks about “How to implement Adobe’s API Manager with Swagger, ColdFusion, and API’s” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast.

Find the transcript and the shownotes at www.teratech.com/podcast/how-to-implement-adobe-api-manager-swagger-coldfusion

In this session, you will be provided a look, with examples, about a successful implementation of the Adobe API Manager into a large scale Enterprise environment. You will learn how to configure the API Manager, migrate your existing API’s, and create new ones utilizing Swagger. As an added bonus you will learn how to accelerate your SDLC by utilizing API’s to automate the API creation process along with the on-boarding of subscribers. Lastly, you will see first hand how to wrap the entire API Manager into a developer portal using, you got it, API’s!

Show notes

What is the Adobe API Manager?

Built using Java and Angular
Comes with CF Entreprise
SOAP to REST WSDL
Analytics
End point level and resource level
Realtime
Debugging APIs
Drill down to problems and solve
Replay
Sandbox and failover server
Versioning
Security
Metering and Throttling, SLA
Clustering
API key management
Why should CFers be using it?
Productivity and Debugging API
Simplify API creation and consumption
More control over your API, who uses them and how much they can call them
What is Swagger?
How did you migrate to it from Layer 7?
Cost saving $400k
Automation and SDLC
Microservices
Auto documentation
Programmatic building of APIs
Why are you proud to use CF?
Performance
Improvements at Adobe with conference, roadmap
30 CF developers at MarketAmerica
WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year?
Stronger CF community
Modern CFML use and use of REST
Forrester whitepaper
Be ok asking and talking with Adobe
What are you looking forward to at CF Summit?

Mentioned in this episode

Adobe API Manager 
CA API manager (formerly Layer 7)
Rakshith Naresh, Adobe Product Manager for ColdFusion
Swagger- the world’s largest framework of API developer tools for the OpenAPI Specification(OAS)
REST
SOAP
WSDL = Web Services Description Language
Elastic search
PCI security
API endpoint
SLA = Service Level Agreement
API Contract
API keys
microservices